Graph neural network (GNN)-based prediction system for total organic carbon (TOC) in shale

ABSTRACT

A graph neural network (GNN)-based prediction system for total organic carbon (TOC) in shale solves the problem that the existing shale TOC prediction method cannot fully analyze the complex nonlinear relationship between all logging curves and TOC. The prediction system adopts a method including: acquiring and preprocessing a plurality of logging curves of a target well location in a target shale bed to acquire a plurality of standardized logging curves, windowing the plurality of standardized logging curves, and inputting the windowed logging curves and weight matrix into a trained GNN-based TOC prediction network to acquire TOC of the target well location. The prediction system inputs the plurality of logging curves as correlative multi-dimensional dynamic graph data for analysis and can acquire the complex nonlinear relationship between the logging curves and TOC, thus improving the prediction accuracy of TOC.

CROSS REFERENCE TO THE RELATED APPLICATIONS

This application is based upon and claims priority to Chinese PatentApplication No. 202111411640.8, filed on Nov. 25, 2021, the entirecontents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure belongs to the field of geological explorationand in particular to a graph neural network (GNN)-based predictionsystem for total organic carbon (TOC) in shale.

BACKGROUND

Source rock evaluation is of great significance to the development ofshale gas and shale oil. As an important parameter for reservoirprediction and the main indicator for evaluating the source potential inthe shale gas reservoir, TOC plays an important role in source rockevaluation. Generally, TOC is measured in the laboratory by rock-eval(RE) pyrolysis. However, due to the limited number of core samples andthe high cost of experiments, there are usually little data.

It has been confirmed that conventional wireline logging (such asacoustic logging, gamma-ray logging, resistivity logging, and densitylogging) parameters are related to TOC. Therefore, the relationshipbetween the TOC of core samples and wireline logging parameters can beestablished to predict continuous TOC.

In the Chinese patent application CN110501744B, only the P-waveimpedance (PI) data is used, and other relevant logging parameters areignored. In addition, the statistical equation involves model-drivenanalysis using a binomial fitting, and due to the limitedcharacterization ability, the model cannot characterize the complexnonlinear relationship between TOC and logging parameters.

In the Chinese patent application CN108171376B, the included anglecosine is used as the similarity measure, and the simple linear modelingmethod is not sufficient to characterize the complex nonlinearrelationship between TOC and various logging parameters.

In Chinese patent application CN106568918B, the mathematicalrelationship model uses monomial fitting, which is not sufficient tocharacterize the complex nonlinear relationship between TOC and variouslogging parameters.

SUMMARY

To solve the above problems in the prior art, that is, the existingshale TOC prediction method cannot fully analyze the complex nonlinearrelationship between all logging curves and TOC, the present disclosureprovides a GNN-based prediction system for TOC in shale. The predictionsystem includes an operation terminal, a data terminal, and a dataprocessing server that are connected through a communication link.

The operation terminal is configured to select logging curves of atarget well location in a target shale bed from the data terminal andinput or select a weight matrix between the logging curves.

One or more data terminals are configured to store logging curves ofdifferent well locations.

The data processing server is configured to acquire the logging curvesselected by the operation terminal, acquire the TOC of the target welllocation through a trained GNN model, and transmit the TOC to theoperation terminal.

The logging curves refer to formation response signals acquired duringthe drilling and development of shale gas or shale oil well and includea radioactive uranium logging curve, a radioactive thorium loggingcurve, a radioactive potassium logging curve, an acoustic velocitylogging curve, a compensated neutron logging curve, a density loggingcurve, a lithology density logging curve, a deep investigation doublelateral resistivity logging curve, a shallow investigation doublelateral resistivity logging curve, and a gamma logging curve.

A method for acquiring the TOC of the target well location includes:preprocessing based on a plurality of logging curves to acquire aplurality of standardized logging curves, windowing the plurality ofstandardized logging curves, and inputting windowed logging curves and apreset weight matrix between the logging curves into a trained GNN-basedTOC prediction network to acquire the TOC of the target well location.

The method for acquiring the TOC of the target well location furtherincludes a first step of analyzing sensitivity values of the loggingcurves, specifically including:

S400A: carrying out, by a trained graph convolutional neural network(GCNN), gradient back-propagation based on the TOC of the target welllocation to acquire the sensitivity value of each logging curve topredicted TOC.

The method for acquiring the TOC of the target well location furtherincludes a second step of analyzing sensitivity values of the loggingcurves, specifically including:

S400B: dividing different standardized logging curves into differentlogging curve combinations, training a GNN-based TOC prediction networkcorresponding to the different logging curve combinations to acquire TOCpredicted by the different logging curve combinations, comparing the TOCpredicted by the different logging curve combinations with measured TOCof a TOC measuring point of a known well location, and analyzing thesensitivity values of the different logging curve combinations to thepredicted TOC.

In some preferred implementations, the trained GNN-based TOC predictionnetwork is acquired through training by the following steps:

A100: acquiring standardized logging curves of the known well location;

A200: acquiring a plurality of TOC measuring points of the known welllocation by analyzing the TOC of a core extracted during drilling of theknown well location and acquiring the measured TOC;

A300: windowing the logging curve according to the position of the TOCmeasuring point of the known well location, where the depthcorresponding to the center of a data window after windowing is theposition of the TOC measuring point;

A400: presetting the weight matrix between the logging curves;

A500: dividing the windowed logging curves, the weight matrix betweenthe logging curves, and the measured TOC into a training set and averification set;

A600: inputting the training set and the weight matrix between thelogging curves into a GNN-based TOC prediction network; extracting, by agraph-based convolution kernel of the logging curves, a characteristicof a training sample; and outputting predicted TOC of the training setbased on the characteristic of the training sample;

A700: calculating a loss function of the training set based on thepredicted TOC of the training set and the measured TOC and optimizing anetwork parameter by a stochastic gradient descent algorithm;

A800: inputting, in each iteration, the verification set and the weightmatrix into the GNN-based TOC prediction network, and outputting thepredicted TOC of the verification set; and

calculating a loss function of the verification set based on thepredicted TOC of the verification set and the measured TOC; and

A900: repeating steps A600 to A800 until the loss function of thetraining set is lower than a preset threshold or the loss function ofthe verification set shows an upward trend to acquire the trainedGNN-based TOC prediction network.

In some preferred implementations, the graph-based convolution kernelincludes a plurality of spatial-temporal convolution blocks.

The spatial-temporal convolution block includes twospatial-temporal-convolution blocks (ST-Cony Blocks) and a fullyconnected output layer that are sequentially connected.

Each of the ST-Cony Blocks includes a temporal gated-convolution(Temporal Gated-Cony) block, a spatial graph-convolution (SpatialGraph-Cony) block, and a Temporal Gated-Cony block that are sequentiallyconnected.

For each Temporal Gated-Cony block, a 1-dimensional causal convolutionis implemented through a gated linear unit (GLU).

In some preferred implementations, the loss function is preferablyimplemented by a mean squared error (MSE) or a squared error loss (L2loss).

In some preferred implementations, the preprocessing includes removingan abnormal value in the logging curves and normalizing.

In some preferred implementations, a factor that reduces a predictionaccuracy is removed according to the sensitivity value of each loggingcurve to the predicted TOC, an optimal logging curve combination isselected, and the optimal logging curve combination and the weightmatrix between the logging curves are input into the trained GNN-basedTOC prediction network to acquire the TOC of the target well location.

Another aspect of the present disclosure provides a GNN-based predictionsystem for TOC in shale, including a logging curve acquisition module, adata preprocessing module, and a TOC prediction module.

The logging curve acquisition module is configured to acquire aplurality of logging curves of a target well location in a target shalebed. The logging curves refer to formation response signals acquiredduring the drilling and development of shale gas or shale oil well andinclude ten logging curves, namely, a radioactive uranium logging curve,a radioactive thorium logging curve, a radioactive potassium loggingcurve, an acoustic velocity logging curve, a compensated neutron loggingcurve, a density logging curve, a lithology density logging curve, adeep investigation double lateral resistivity logging curve, a shallowinvestigation double lateral resistivity logging curve, and a gammalogging curve.

The data preprocessing module is configured to preprocess the pluralityof logging curves to acquire a plurality of standardized logging curves.

The TOC prediction module is configured to window the plurality ofstandardized logging curves and input windowed logging curves and apreset weight matrix between the logging curves into a trained GNN-basedTOC prediction network to acquire TOC of the target well location.

The present disclosure has the following beneficial effects:

(1) In the present disclosure, the GNN-based prediction system for TOCin shale inputs the plurality of logging curves as correlativemulti-dimensional dynamic graph data into the GNN for analysis. TheGNN-based prediction system for TOC in shale makes full use of allavailable logging parameters and can accurately acquire the relationshipbetween the logging curves and TOC.

(2) In the present disclosure, the GNN-based prediction system for TOCin shale analyzes all logging parameters through the GNN model, analyzesthe dynamic relationship between the logging nodes in a distributedmanner, and automatically learns the TOC prediction mode.

(3) The GNN model of the present disclosure is a data-driven model,which can maximally mine the dynamic mapping relationship of nonlinearfunctions, thereby breaking through the limitations brought by theformalized designation of models by humans.

(4) In the present disclosure, the GNN-based prediction system for TOCin shale infers the correlation degree between a plurality of loggingparameters and TOC and can carry out gradient back-propagation of thetrained model or combine different logging curves to analyze themodeling effect. In this way, the GNN-based prediction system for TOC inshale eliminates the factors that reduce the prediction accuracy andignores irrelevant factors, thus improving the robustness andinterpretability.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

Other features, objectives, and advantages of the present disclosurewill become more apparent upon reading the detailed description of thenon-restrictive embodiments and referring to the following drawings.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of acquiring TOC of a target well location by aGNN-based prediction system for TOC in shale according to an embodimentof the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the GNN-based prediction system for TOC inshale according to a second embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a GCNN according to an embodiment ofthe present disclosure; and

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a parameter detail of the GCNNaccording to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

The present disclosure will be further described in detail below inconjunction with the drawings and embodiments. It should be understoodthat the specific embodiments described herein are intended to explainthe present disclosure, rather than to limit the present disclosure. Itshould also be noted that, for the convenience of description, only theparts related to the present disclosure are shown in the drawings.

It should be noted that the embodiments in the present disclosure andfeatures in the embodiments may be combined if no conflict occurs. Thepresent disclosure will be described in detail below by referring to thedrawings and embodiments.

The present disclosure provides a GNN-based prediction system for TOC inshale. The present system inputs a plurality of logging curves ascorrelative multi-dimensional dynamic graph data into the GNN foranalysis. The present disclosure can accurately acquire the relationshipbetween the logging curves and TOC.

The prediction system includes an operation terminal, a data terminal,and a data processing server that are connected through a communicationlink. The operation terminal is configured to select logging curves of atarget well location in a target shale bed from the data terminal andinput or select a weight matrix between the logging curves. One or moredata terminals are configured to store logging curves of different welllocations. The data processing server is configured to acquire thelogging curves selected by the operation terminal, acquire the TOC ofthe target well location through a trained GNN model, and transmit theTOC to the operation terminal.

For the convenience of description, a data processing solution in a dataprocessing server is described in detail in the following steps S100 toS300.

S100. A plurality of logging curves of a target well location in atarget shale bed are acquired. In this embodiment, the logging curvesrefer to formation response signals acquired during the drilling anddevelopment of shale gas or shale oil well and include ten loggingcurves, namely, a radioactive uranium logging curve, a radioactivethorium logging curve, a radioactive potassium logging curve, anacoustic velocity logging curve, a compensated neutron logging curve, adensity logging curve, a lithology density logging curve, a deepinvestigation double lateral resistivity logging curve, a shallowinvestigation double lateral resistivity logging curve, and a gammalogging curve.

S200. The plurality of logging curves are preprocessed to acquire aplurality of standardized logging curves.

In this embodiment, the preprocessing includes removing an abnormalvalue in the logging curves and normalizing.

S300. The plurality of standardized logging curves are windowed and areinput together with a preset weight matrix between the logging curvesinto a trained GNN-based TOC prediction network to acquire the TOC ofthe target well location. The principle of the GNN-based predictionnetwork is shown in FIG. 3 . In FIG. 3 , the symbol in the upper leftcorner denotes the weight matrix, and the symbol in the lower leftcorner denotes the time series of inputting 10 logging curves afterwindowing. TGC denotes time gain compensation and SGC denotes side gaincompensation.

In this embodiment, the trained GNN-based TOC prediction network isacquired through training by the following steps:

A100. Standardized logging curves of the known well location areacquired.

A200. A plurality of TOC measuring points of the known well location areacquired by analyzing the TOC of a core extracted during drilling of theknown well location, and the measured TOC is acquired. Generally, TOC ismeasured in the laboratory by rock-eval (RE) pyrolysis as the mainindicator for evaluating the hydrocarbon generation potential of sourcerocks in the shale gas reservoir. However, the number of core samples islimited and the experiments are costly. In this context, the method ofthe present disclosure for acquiring TOC by logging curves cansignificantly reduce the exploration cost.

A300. The logging curve is windowed according to the position of the TOCmeasuring point of the known well location, where the depthcorresponding to the center of a data window after windowing is theposition of the TOC measuring point.

A400. The weight matrix between the logging curves is preset. In thisembodiment, in the weight matrix, the weight for characterizing therelationship among gamma ray (GR), uranium (U), thorium (TH), andpotassium (K) in gamma-ray logging is large (for example, 1). The weightfor characterizing the relationship among interval transit time DT,compensated neutron logging (CNL), density (DEN), and photoelectric (PE)in porosity logging is large (for example, 1). The weight forcharacterizing the relationship between deep investigation doublelateral resistivity logging (RD) and shallow investigation doublelateral resistivity logging (RS) in resistivity logging is large (forexample, 1). The weight for characterizing the relationship amonggamma-ray logging, porosity logging, and resistivity logging is small(for example, 0.1). In this embodiment, the weight is set to distinguishthe differences between the logging curves representing differentphysical properties, and other values can also be selected. For example,the weight for characterizing the relationship among gamma-ray logging,porosity logging, and resistivity logging can be set to 1/n of otherparameters, n being a positive number greater than or equal to 2. Theweight for characterizing gamma-ray logging, the weight forcharacterizing porosity logging, and the weight for characterizingresistivity logging can also be set as different parameters.

A500. The windowed logging curves, the weight matrix between the loggingcurves, and the measured TOC are divided into a training set and averification set. In this embodiment, a depth corresponding to a windowcenter indicates a core position where the TOC needs to be predicted.

In this embodiment, the graph-based convolution kernel includes aplurality of spatial-temporal convolution blocks, as shown in FIG. 4 .

The spatial-temporal convolution block includes twospatial-temporal-convolution blocks (ST-Cony Blocks) and a fullyconnected output layer that are sequentially connected.

Each of the ST-Cony Blocks includes a temporal gated-convolution(Temporal Gated-Cony) block, a spatial graph-convolution (SpatialGraph-Cony) block, and a Temporal Gated-Cony block that are sequentiallyconnected.

For each Temporal Gated-Cony block, a 1-dimensional causal convolutionis implemented through a gated linear unit (GLU).

A600. The training set and the weight matrix between the logging curvesare input into a GNN-based TOC prediction network. A characteristic of atraining sample is extracted by a graph-based convolution kernel of thelogging curves, and the predicted TOC of the training set is outputbased on the characteristic of the training sample.

A700. A loss function of the training set is calculated based on thepredicted TOC of the training set and the measured TOC, and a networkparameter is optimized by a stochastic gradient descent algorithm.

In this embodiment, the loss function is preferably implemented by amean squared error (MSE) or a squared error loss (L2 loss).

A800. In each iteration, the verification set and the weight matrix areinput into the GNN-based TOC prediction network, and the predicted TOCof the verification set is output.

A loss function of the verification set is calculated based on thepredicted TOC of the verification set and the measured TOC.

A900. Steps A600 to A800 are repeated until the loss function of thetraining set is lower than the preset threshold or the loss function ofthe verification set shows an upward trend to acquire the trainedGNN-based TOC prediction network.

In this embodiment, the method for acquiring the TOC of the target welllocation further includes a first step of analyzing the sensitivityvalues of the logging curves, specifically including:

S400A. Gradient back-propagation is carried out based on the TOC of thetarget well location to acquire the sensitivity value of each loggingcurve to the predicted TOC.

In this step, the sensitivity values are sorted from large to small, andthe first N logging curves sorted based on their sensitivity values areselected as a first logging curve combination. When the TOC of othertarget well locations is predicted, the first logging curve combinationand the preset weight matrix between the logging curves are input intothe trained GNN-based TOC prediction network to acquire the final TOC.

In this embodiment, the factor that reduces the prediction accuracy iseliminated according to the sensitivity value of each logging curve tothe predicted TOC, and the acquired logging curve combination can betaken as the first logging curve combination (which can be used as theoptimal logging curve combination). The first logging curve combinationand the weight matrix between the logging curves are input into thetrained GNN-based TOC prediction network to acquire the TOC of thetarget well location.

In this embodiment, the method of analyzing the sensitivity values ofthe logging curves further includes a second step of analyzingsensitivity values of the logging curves, specifically including:

S400B: Different standardized logging curves are divided into differentlogging curve combinations. A GNN-based TOC prediction networkcorresponding to the different logging curve combinations is trainedaccording to steps A100 to A900, to acquire TOC predicted by thedifferent logging curve combinations. The TOC predicted by the differentlogging curve combinations is compared with the measured TOC of a TOCmeasuring point of a known well location. The sensitivity values of thedifferent logging curve combinations to the predicted TOC are analyzed.

In this embodiment, the method for analyzing the sensitivity values ofthe logging curves may further include a third step of analyzing thesensitivity values of the logging curves, specifically including:

The ten logging curves are combined in any number to form a plurality ofsecond logging curve combinations. The second logging curve combinationsare input into the trained GNN-based TOC prediction network to acquirethe sensitivity values of the various second logging curve combinationsto the predicted TOC.

When the TOC of other target well locations is predicted, a secondlogging curve combination with the highest sensitivity value to thepredicted TOC is selected. The second logging curve combination and thepreset weight matrix between the logging curves are input into thetrained GNN-based TOC prediction network to acquire the final TOC.

A second embodiment of the present disclosure provides a GNN-basedprediction system for TOC in shale. As shown in FIG. 2 , the predictionsystem includes a logging curve acquisition module, a data preprocessingmodule, and a TOC prediction module.

The logging curve acquisition module is configured to acquire aplurality of logging curves of a target well location in a target shalebed, where the logging curves refer to formation response signalsacquired during the drilling and development of shale gas or shale oilwell, and include ten logging curves, namely, a radioactive uraniumlogging curve, a radioactive thorium logging curve, a radioactivepotassium logging curve, an acoustic velocity logging curve, acompensated neutron logging curve, a density logging curve, a lithologydensity logging curve, a deep investigation double lateral resistivitylogging curve, a shallow investigation double lateral resistivitylogging curve, and a gamma logging curve.

The data preprocessing module is configured to preprocess the pluralityof logging curves to acquire a plurality of standardized logging curves.

The TOC prediction module is configured to window the plurality ofstandardized logging curves and input windowed logging curves and apreset weight matrix between the logging curves into a trained GNN-basedTOC prediction network to acquire TOC of the target well location.

Those skilled in the art should clearly understand that, for convenienceand brevity of description, reference is made to corresponding processesin the above method embodiments for specific working processes andrelated description of the system, and details are not described hereinagain.

It should be noted that the GNN-based prediction system for TOC in shaleprovided in the above embodiments is described by dividing the functionsinto the above functional modules as an example. In practicalapplications, the above functions can be completed by differentfunctional modules as required, that is, the modules or steps in theembodiments of the present disclosure are further decomposed orcombined. For example, the modules of the above embodiments may becombined into one module or may be further divided into a plurality ofsub-modules to complete all or part of the functions described above.The names of the modules and steps involved in the embodiments of thepresent disclosure are only for distinguishing each module or step andshould not be regarded as improper limitations on the presentdisclosure.

A third embodiment of the present disclosure provides an electronicdevice, which includes at least one processor and a memorycommunicatively connected to the at least one processor, where thememory stores an instruction executable by the processor, and theinstruction is executed by the processor to implement the aboveGNN-based prediction method for TOC in shale.

A fourth embodiment of the present disclosure proposes acomputer-readable storage medium, which stores a computer instruction,where the computer instruction is executed by a computer to implementthe above GNN-based prediction method for TOC in shale.

Those skilled in the art should understand that, for convenience andbrevity of description, reference is made to corresponding processes inthe above method embodiments for specific working processes and relateddescription of the storage device and processing device, and details arenot described herein again.

Particularly, according to the embodiments of the present disclosure,the process described above as shown in the flowchart may be implementedas a computer software program. For example, an embodiment of thepresent disclosure includes a computer program product including acomputer program stored in a computer-readable medium. The computerprogram includes program code for executing the method shown in theflowchart. In this embodiment, the computer program may be downloadedfrom a network using the communication part and installed and/orinstalled from the removable medium. When the computer program isexecuted by the CPU, the functions defined in the method of the presentdisclosure are executed. It should be noted that the computer-readablemedium in the present disclosure may be a computer-readable signalmedium, a computer-readable storage medium, or a combination thereof.The computer-readable storage medium may be, for example, but notlimited to, electrical, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, orsemiconductor systems, apparatuses, devices, or any combination thereof.More specific examples of the computer-readable storage medium mayinclude, but are not limited to, an electrical connector with one ormore wires, a portable computer magnetic disk, a hard disk, a RAM, aROM, an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory),an optical fiber, a portable compact disk read-only memory (CD-ROM), anoptical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any propercombination thereof. In the present disclosure, the computer-readablestorage medium may be any tangible medium including or storing aprogram, and the program may be used by or used in combination with aninstruction execution system, apparatus, or device. In the presentdisclosure, the computer-readable signal medium may include a datasignal propagated in a baseband or propagated as a part of a carrier andcarries computer-readable program code. The propagated data signal maybe in various forms, including but not limited to, an electromagneticsignal, an optical signal, or any suitable combination thereof. Thecomputer-readable signal medium may alternatively be anycomputer-readable medium except the computer-readable storage medium.The computer-readable medium may send, propagate, or transmit a programused by or used in combination with an instruction execution system,apparatus, or device. The program code contained on thecomputer-readable medium may be transmitted using any suitable medium,including, but not limited to, wireless, wire, optical fiber, RF, or anysuitable combination thereof.

The computer program code for executing the operations in the presentdisclosure may be compiled by using one or more program design languagesor a combination thereof. The programming languages includeobject-oriented programming languages, such as Java, Smalltalk, andCC⁺⁺, and conventional procedural programming languages, such as C orsimilar programming languages. The program code may be executed fully ona user computer, executed partly on a user computer, executed as anindependent software package, executed partly on a user computer andpartly on a remote computer, or executed fully on a remote computer or aserver. When a remote computer is involved, the remote computer may beconnected to the user computer via any type of network including a LANor a wide area network (WAN) or may be connected to an external computer(for example, connected via the Internet by using an Internet serviceprovider).

The flowcharts and block diagrams in the accompanying drawingsillustrate system architectures, functions, and operations that may beimplemented by the system, method, and computer program productaccording to the embodiments of the present disclosure. In this regard,each block in the flowcharts or block diagrams may represent a module, aprogram segment, or a part of code, and the module, the program segment,or the part of code includes one or more executable instructions forimplementing specified logic functions. It should also be noted that, insome alternative implementations, the functions marked in the blocks mayalternatively be performed in an order different from that marked in thedrawings. For example, two successively shown blocks may be executed inparallel substantially or may be executed in reverse order sometimes,depending on the functions involved. It should also be noted that eachblock in the block diagrams and/or flowcharts and combinations of theblocks in the block diagrams and/or flowcharts may be implemented by adedicated hardware-based system for executing specified functions oroperations or may be implemented by a combination of dedicated hardwareand computer instructions.

Terms such as “first” and “second” are intended to distinguish betweensimilar objects, rather than describe or indicate a specific order orsequence.

Terms “include”, “comprise”, or any other variations thereof areintended to cover non-exclusive inclusions, such that a process, amethod, an article, or a device/apparatus including a series of elementsnot only includes those elements but also includes other elements thatare not explicitly listed or also includes inherent elements of theprocess, the method, the article or the device/apparatus.

The technical solutions of the present disclosure are described byreferring to the preferred implementations shown in the accompanyingdrawings. Those skilled in the art should understand that the protectionscope of the present disclosure is not limited to these specificimplementations. Those skilled in the art can make equivalent changes orsubstitutions to the relevant technical features without departing fromthe principles of the present disclosure, and the technical solutionsafter these changes or substitutions should fall within the protectionscope of the present disclosure.

What is claimed is:
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A graph neural network (GNN)-based predictionsystem for total organic carbon (TOC) in shale, comprising an operationterminal, a data terminal, and a data processing server, wherein theoperation terminal, the data terminal and the data processing server areconnected through a communication link, wherein the operation terminalis configured to select logging curves of a target well location in atarget shale bed from the data terminal and input or select a weightmatrix between the logging curves; one or more data terminals areconfigured to store logging curves of different well locations; the dataprocessing server is configured to acquire the logging curves selectedby the operation terminal, acquire TOC of the target well locationthrough a trained GNN model, and transmit the TOC to the operationterminal; the logging curves refer to formation response signalsacquired during drilling and development of a shale gas or shale oilwell, and the logging curves comprise a radioactive uranium loggingcurve, a radioactive thorium logging curve, a radioactive potassiumlogging curve, an acoustic velocity logging curve, a compensated neutronlogging curve, a density logging curve, a lithology density loggingcurve, a deep investigation double lateral resistivity logging curve, ashallow investigation double lateral resistivity logging curve, and agamma logging curve; a method for acquiring the TOC of the target welllocation comprises: preprocessing a plurality of logging curves toacquire a plurality of standardized logging curves, windowing theplurality of standardized logging curves, and inputting windowed loggingcurves and a preset weight matrix between the logging curves into atrained GNN-based TOC prediction network to acquire the TOC of thetarget well location; the method for acquiring the TOC of the targetwell location further comprises a first step of analyzing sensitivityvalues of the logging curves, comprising: S400A: carrying out, by atrained graph convolutional neural network (GCNN), gradientback-propagation based on the TOC of the target well location to acquirea sensitivity value of each of the logging curves to predicted TOC; themethod for acquiring the TOC of the target well location furthercomprises a second step of analyzing the sensitivity values of thelogging curves, comprising: S400B: dividing the plurality ofstandardized logging curves into a plurality of combinations of loggingcurves; training a GNN-based TOC prediction network corresponding to theplurality of combinations of logging curves to acquire TOC predicted bythe plurality of combinations of logging curves; comparing the TOCpredicted by the plurality of combinations of logging curves withmeasured TOC of a TOC measuring point of a known well location; andanalyzing sensitivity values of the plurality of combinations of loggingcurves to the predicted TOC to select a combination of logging curves ofthe plurality of combinations of logging curves with a highestsensitivity value to the predicted TOC and inputting the selectedcombination of logging curves into the GNN-based TOC prediction networkto acquire a final TOC, wherein the trained GNN-based TOC predictionnetwork is acquired through training by the following steps: A100:acquiring standardized logging curves of the known well location; A200:acquiring a plurality of TOC measuring points of the known well locationby analyzing TOC of a core extracted during drilling of the known welllocation and acquiring the measured TOC; A300: windowing the loggingcurve according to a position of the TOC measuring point of the knownwell location, wherein a depth corresponding to a center of a datawindow after windowing is the position of the TOC measuring point; A400:presetting the weight matrix between the logging curves; A500: dividingthe windowed logging curves, the weight matrix between the loggingcurves, and the measured TOC into a training set and a verification set;A600: inputting the training set and the weight matrix between thelogging curves into a GNN-based TOC prediction network; extracting, by agraph-based convolution kernel of the logging curves, a characteristicof a training sample; and outputting predicted TOC of the training setbased on the characteristic of the training sample; A700: calculating aloss function of the training set based on the predicted TOC of thetraining set and the measured TOC and optimizing a network parameter bya stochastic gradient descent algorithm; A800: inputting, in eachiteration, the verification set and the weight matrix into the GNN-basedTOC prediction network and outputting predicted TOC of the verificationset and calculating a loss function of the verification set based on thepredicted TOC of the verification set and the measured TOC; and A900:repeating steps A600 to A800 until the loss function of the training setis lower than a preset threshold or the loss function of theverification set shows an upward trend to acquire the trained GNN-basedTOC prediction network; and wherein the graph-based convolution kernelcomprises a plurality of spatial-temporal convolution blocks; each ofthe plurality of spatial-temporal convolution blocks comprises twospatial-temporal-convolution blocks (ST-Cony Blocks) and a fullyconnected output layer, wherein the two ST-Cony Blocks and the fullyconnected output layer are sequentially connected; each of the twoST-Cony Blocks comprises a first temporal gated-convolution (TemporalGated-Cony) block, a spatial graph-convolution (Spatial Graph-Cony)block, and a second Temporal Gated-Cony block, wherein the firstTemporal Gated-Cony block, the Spatial Graph-Cony block and the secondTemporal Gated-Cony block are sequentially connected; and for each ofthe first Temporal Gated-Cony block and the second Temporal Gated-Conyblock, a 1-dimensional causal convolution is implemented through a gatedlinear unit (GLU).
 2. The GNN-based prediction system for TOC in shaleaccording to claim 1, wherein the loss function is implemented by a meansquared error (MSE) or a squared error loss (L2 loss).
 3. The GNN-basedprediction system for TOC in shale according to claim 1, wherein thepreprocessing comprises: removing an abnormal value in the loggingcurves and normalizing.
 4. The GNN-based prediction system for TOC inshale according to claim 1, wherein a factor is removed according to thesensitivity value of each of the logging curves to the predicted TOC,wherein the factor reduces a prediction accuracy; a remaining loggingcurve combination is taken as an optimal logging curve combination; andthe optimal logging curve combination and the weight matrix between thelogging curves are input into the trained GNN-based TOC predictionnetwork to acquire the TOC of the target well location.